Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

L. S. Daily has been appointed Postmaster
at Antelope in Sacramento county.
The Sacramento Land and Colonization
Company having fulfilled its mission, asks
the Superior Court to allow it to disincor-
porate.
Saturday night squad of police raided
an opium joint in Chinatown. Spells: Ten
Cinnamon, as many pipes and complete
layout"
Saturday the following steamers arrived :
Varuna from the upper Sacramento and
San Joaquin No. from San Francisco.
They both made return trips yesterday.
The finest potatoes produced in America
are grown at from $500 to 5000 feet alti-
tude in Ell Dorado county. One farmer
near Grizzly Flat produces ten tons to the
acre.
The non-commissioned officers of the
various companies of the First Artillery
Regiment are ordered to assemble at
Armory Hall tonight for military inspec-
ton.
The tunnel on the Placerville Railroad
has been completed and the rails will be
laid through it tomorrow. The iron horse
will be putting up Hangtown creek in
few days.
When the alarm from box % was
sounded last evening several members of
the police force rushed to the station house
TO rescue their-helmets. They cared not
for the balance of the uniform.
This evening Mr.. Hector, who fought
under the Union flag in the late war, and
who is well know as the colored orator, will
lecture in Y. NJ. c. p. Hall on The Story
of My Life" Rev. a. T. Needham will
preside.
From 500 to 900 persons attended the
auction sale Saturday at the Edleman
tract, half mile east of Lodi. Excursion
trains were run from Stockton and Sacra-
mento. The average price paid was $134
per acre.
Judge A. c. Monson, formerly partner
of Milton S. Latham in Sacramento, re-
signed the treasurership of the Jerome
Park Jockey CLUB, after twenty-one years
incumbency. The progressive members
want new blood.
The largest number of visitors at the
city's Z. B. Croker Art Gallery on any
Sunday since the opening of the gallery,
was that of yesterday. The exhibition of
the work of pupils of the School of Design
probably drew large numbers.
Last night at supper at an uptown hotel
one of the boarders had dispute with a
waiter. The latter became very reckless
with the hotel property, and tried to give
all the crockery in the establishment piece
at time to the thoroughly frightened
boarder, who fled, followed by teacups fly
ing in the air.
Saturday as two Italians were driving off
the Yolo bridge on their way to this city,
the horses, which were gentle animals"
rushed at a break-neck speed, being fright
md of NntfT 1ar oc+r 10
telegraph post and were caught. The har-
ness was badly broken and the Italians
badly frightened.
Mrs Margery Ash, of No. 217 Pine street,
Pawtucket, R. l., writes Governor Water
man making inquiry for her brother Will
lam Sharrack. The last she heard of him
he was paymaster on one of her Majestys
steamers. She has been told since that he
was in the cattle business in California He
has been lost to her for twenty-four years
The average signal service temperature
on Saturday was 400, being 10 cooler than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was so and 800, with
light southerly winds and clear weather.
The average temperature yesterday was
47o being % cooler than the normal for
that day. The highest and lowest tempera-
ture was $50 and 800, with variable winds
anu Cl6dT WedlU6T. y HSdNy ITOSI ana llll
ice was noticed upon each morning.
The Austro-H Hungarian Orchestra gave
concerts Saturday and Sunday nights at
the Clunie Opera House. The audiences
would undoubtedly have been greatly
larger except for the fact that the building
is not warmed, and the nights Just now are
too cool to justify the many people who
take cold easily sitting for two hours in the
unwarmed atmosphere of large au-
ditorium. As a pure economical invest
ment heater would pay all concerned.
The concerts of the orchestra, even though
the number of performers was cut down to
nine, were musical treats, and heartily en-
joyed by the audiences.
President Cleveland wants the tariff
taken off of wool and wooden goods. All
the wool-growers and dealers are up in
arms against that kind of policy. The
wool-growers and dealers in this section
will meet at Changers Hall at IL A. NJ to-
day to cuss and discuss this latest Demo-
cratic policy. The joke of the whole bust
ness is that majority of the wool growers
are Democrats. One Democratic fleece
grower, who has engineered many politi
cal convention, yesterday remarked:
"Clevelands message is document that
will ring the death knell of the Democratic
party at the next Presidential election. and
will sweep Cleveland into q hole from
which he can never emerge. 1t leaves the
grand old party in state of 'inoccuous des-
suetude.'"
PIANO TUNING.-Paul Schoen, practical
piano maker Hammers music store.
Buy your wife a Magee for Xmas. A
ft1 II assortronnt of H12 Il stropt